A print media feed arrangement (54) for a printer includes a pick-up element (60) with a length approximately the same as a dimension of the print media transverse to the direction of the print media feed. The pick-up element has an internal chamber and an evacuation device (66) in communication with the chamber. The pick-up element is moved relative to a printing station of the printer by motor (...

A pneumatic tire enabling the elimination of steel from a radial tire, wherein a bead wire part included in a bead part and constraining the inner peripheral length of the bead part and/or the belt wire of a belt part is formed of aluminum composite reinforced fibers in which one or more types of coatings or fillings selected from a magnetic bond, a conductive thermoplastic epoxy resin, a thermopl...

An automatic control system for an electrosurgical generator is herein disclosed. The automatic control system includes voltage and current sensing circuits, a processing circuit, an output determining circuit, and a control circuit. Samples of the voltage and current outputs are supplied to the processing circuit and the output determining circuit to generate an output signal. The output signal i...

A method in a computer system comprising input/output (1/O) devices and connected to a communication network, the method enabling a user of the computer system to purchase at least one electronic content file from an electronic file distributor 5 (EFD), the electronic content file being advertised through an on-line catalogue of the EFD, the method comprising the steps of selecting at least one el...

According to one aspect a method for manufacturing a holographic storage medium includes providing one or more data masks (122) with data to be recorded, illuminating the one or more data masks onto the medium with a plane wave object beam (116) from a laser light source (110) operating at a record wavelength, propagating a reference beam (114) at an incident angle to the medium (124) to record th...

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for delivering manganese from a lubricant source into a fuel combustion system or to the exhaust therefrom . By the present invention, manganese from the lubricant will interact with phosphorus, sulfu r, and/or lead from the combustion products. In this manner, the manganese scavenges or inactivates harmful materials which have migrated into...

The present invention provides a cap forming device capable of manufacturing a cap having a shape retaining property by processing a resin packaging material sheet, in particular, a cap forming device without a heating mechanism, and a method for forming a resin cap having a shape retaining property, etc. In a cap forming device 1 comprising a cap material punching-out means for punching out one o...

Systems and methods obtain information that allows detection of whether a patient suffers from congestion b y monitoring a response of the patient to a recumbent position of the patient's body. The patient may be monitored to determine a respiration pattern for a non-recumbent position such as standing and a respiration pattern for a recumbent position such as lying down. The two patterns may be c...

An apparatus for removing a folding-box blank (Z) from a magazine and for erecting the same has a first retaining means (6) with means (62) for gripping a first box wall (W1) of the blank (Z) and a second retaining means (7) with means (72) for gripping a second, adjacent box wall (W2) located on the same side of the blank (Z). The two retaining means (6, 7) can be moved relative to one another in...

A drive system for a tracked vehicle having an internal combustion engine with a crankshaft aligned transversely to a direction of travel includes a steering drive; a differential transmission having traction drive elements, steering drive elements, and a pair of drive outputs for a drive axle aligned parallel to the crankshaft; and a steering drive connection connecting the steering drive to the ...

Process for the manufacture of 1,1-difluoroethane by liquid-phase fluorination of 1,2-dichloroethane using hydrofluoric acid in the presence of a Lewis acid as catalyst and of FeCl₃ as cocatalyst. Process for the manufacture of 1,1-difluoroethylene employing it.

Some embodiments of the present application call for a method of validating a financial instrument having a first data field and a second data field, in which the method comprises establishing criteria triggering a confidence threshold increase for the first data field of the financial instrument, the criteria accessible by a processor adapted to compare data from fields of the financial instrumen...

The device has a control and/or regulating device for controlling machine functions, preferably machine axles, and an arrangement for reading in machine control parameters for the control and/or regulating device from a data medium or electronic carrier signal (3). A faulty control protection module, preferably a software module, decrypts machine control parameters encrypted using a key dedicated ...

A method of improving hard handoffs in a communication system comprising a source base station (BS) 114, a target BS 106 and a mobile switching center (MSC) 104. In particular, when a handoff is needed, a requested service option and a list of service options supported by a mobile station (MS) 202 are communicated from the source BS to the target BS. Upon receiving a handoff request message, the t...

A protein library which is a protein library consisting of proteins having amino acid sequences in which 4 to 12 types of amino acids are sequenced at random wherein the amino acids comprise Gly, Ala, Val and Glu or Asp; and a method of screening a protein having a structure or a function which comprises preparing the above protein library, analyzing the structures or functions of proteins constit...

'this invention is directed to a novel integrated kite control bar and con- trolled tension release safety device for use in kite boarding. More particularly, this invention pertains to an integrated kite control bar and controlled tension release safety device which can be activated by a kite boarder by moving the control bar against a safety release device. A kite control bar and safety release ...

The present invention provides a testing tool for testing software applications. The tool implements a method for tracking unit tests of a software application, comprising conducting the unit tests on the software application, the unit tests ordered under hierarchical groupings; and tracking the unit tests so as to capture a result of each unit test and a hierarchical position of each unit test wi...

A method of treating alkaline industrial by-products, such as red mud generated by Bayer process bauxite refining, is described. Embodiments of the method comprise treating the alkaline industrial by-products with salts of divalent and/or polyvalent cations, thereby lowering pH of the alkaline industrial by-products. The method involves replacement reactions in which relatively insoluble hydroxide...

The sheet-metal magnetic return section (11) has plastic over-injection (41), forming a radially-sealed casing for the coil body. On the high and/or low voltage ends a thermoplastic is over-injected onto the return section in a two-component injection molding process.